tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-75858722989054233912012-02-16T15:36:27.939ZThis is the blog of the Tudor kitchens cookery project at Hampton Court Palace, Surrey, England. It's not an official blog and only represents how I see the stuff we do...enjoyTudor Cookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05255518452245806185noreply@blogger.comBlogger3601100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7585872298905423391.post-21470209301454356082011-11-23T15:55:00.001Z2011-11-23T15:58:17.649Z

Right, the time has come to admit to myself....and you all, that it's highly unlikely I'll post much here again! Not only have I lost the motivation to do so, the format and methodology of posting here is no longer suited to the way that I've come to update the world about the work in the kitchens at Hampton Court. The majority of what "I'm" doing is covered by confidentiality at this time, so I

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is always the distinct feeling I get when at things like the IMC this week; I become acutely aware at my own lack of academic qualifications and always feel somewhat out of place. However, although the week started like that, by the end of Tuesday the situation was definitely much improved. I had arrived on Sunday not having really finished my paper, but after a little time and contemplation I

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,,,to follow soon! Am nearly finished writing the report for you about Tuesday at the IMC but have just noticed the time...I've got to be up early, so I'll have to finish and post it tomorrow. TTFN

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turns out that if you knuckle down and actually write something, rather than rely on random waffle and some pretty pictures, then making something coherent that fits inside 15 minutes is possible....just in my case, but that's only because I gave such a scatter gun title and abstract for the proposal that covering everything I mentioned in those in 15 minutes would task the best of us. Still, as

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So sat here in my digs at the International Medieval Congress, half eight in the morning and the room's already like a sauna....gotta love student accommodation! Finally finished putting the talk together last night, though undoubtedly there'll be some tweaks later on when I have had a chance to gauge the average presentation style here...I have to say that this is a first, 15 minutes to present

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use it!! Seems that the guys had some problems in storing the meat over the last weekend. As I mentioned before, thanks to the set-up for the Music Festival we don't get to use the modern kitchen for the June weekend and so they had no access to the large catering fridges for storing ingredients and in spite of their best efforts they weren't able to keep the meat in "tip top" condition for

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Hard to believe, but it is indeed my weekend off the rota and hence away from the kitchens whilst the rest of the guys struggle with the June event. It's always a tricky weekend because the Music Festival set up means we don't have access to the modern kitchen upstairs...so no baking but more crucially, no fridges!! I did my best to plan a menu that would fit this lack of storage as best it could

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FYI the details of the trip back to Wakefield that I mentioned on Twitter, maybe see some of you there??

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Well so far this has turned out to be a pretty duff month!! I really didn't enjoy the last cookery weekend, that's one of the reasons I only updated you for the first day...I had simply had enough of it all and after work time was set aside for drink and loud music....I expect I was an arse to work with so apologise to the rest of the guys, but they're kind of used to that by now! Since then

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Hmm, definitely an interesting day, not busy by any stretch of the imagination...but that's not too much of a surprise given the Royal wedding taking place!As we thought it might be, the bulk of visitors today were foreign with English not as their main language...mostly French as it happens...but all of them were interested and kept us busy with chat and questions...I don't think that I heard

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Well, blink and you'll have missed the 3 days between the last event over the Easter weekend and this coming May bank holiday weekend of cooking...what you won't have missed is the blanket coverage of the impending Royal nuptials...an extra holiday added for you...and an extra day of work for us, making this another 4 day event. The Palace, as I mentioned in an earlier update, has the theme of

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A much quieter day today than the jam packed one yesterday, still busy, just not as much as yesterday was.Cooking wise, another positive day was had and with regards to the overall aim of the weekend great strides have been made already...Christmas here we come!The wine fountain had been going great guns too, this year we seem to have acquired the responsibility to run the thing, though unlike

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Blimey, what a day that was!Glorious weather and a shut Windsor castle certainly brought in the crowds, no ideas as to the numbers, but the kitchen was full for most of the day, as was the rest of the building.....and gardens....as the line from Zulu goes, "there's thousands of them!" and there certainly were.It was good to see forum member and librarian about town Johnna visit us for the day

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well, not really, but it makes a good enough title! Better late than never I suppose with the plans for this Easter weekend in the kitchens at Hampton Court....so, what are they?? This weekend will see us starting on work for the next Xmas event...yes, you read that right, beat that supermarkets with your Easter eggs on the shelves on January 1st and Xmas cards in stock after Halloween! Over the

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So, out for a family dinner yesterday and a situation presented itself that I really wasn't prepared for. It was a little pub restaurant, the usual sort of selection was offered on the menu...all looked acceptable and plenty of choice was available...nothing odd there. Drinks were ordered first, then the food and I plumped for the chicken fillet "burger"...with chips (fries) and salad...it was

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....to the weekend! Carter gets his pocket picked waiting for his train and has his wallet stolen with all his cards, cash and most importantly...return train ticket in!! Fortunately all cards managed to be cancelled pretty sharpish and he's talked Dave into giving him a lift most of the way home...just the tedious nature of getting a replacement card sorted now. Ross on the other hand was half

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realised after I posted yesterday that I hadn't really said a great deal about plans for this weekend of cookery...doh! Well once again we'll be looking at recipes from M.S. Harl. 5401 along with the usual stab at roasting in front of the great fire. Recipes planned include syrop of wardens, rost mylk, potage of prunes and ryshellis of frute along with several others, though to be honest I've no

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Regular readers may well remember that 'we' run our event schedule based on the financial year rather than the calendar one....and with that in mind the new year is just around the corner and this weekend sees the start for the new programme of events. So what can you expect this year?? Pretty much the same as last year as it happens, a mixed bag of this and that culminating with an attempt to

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Ok, so I suppose this is a post with a little explanation in it, something to let you know why there has been a vacuum of silence of late I guess. When I started all of this blogging a couple of years ago, I set myself some house rules that I would always aim to follow. In the main, they are of no great concern to all of you out there, they set out how I was going to layout each post and things

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New phone, worse signal! Oh how technology is a fickle mistress...still if you're reading this at least the tech' held up for long enough for the mail to send and at the moment that's pretty good! Not much to report for you I suppose, we did a little cooking and an awful lot of talking, which seems to now be the norm....not that's any reason too complain as we had some great people round today,

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....people put a little thought into things!! Now as I mentioned and posted before, I made a number of time lapse recordings of the meal time at Christmas so that we could get some idea of how the set up flowed....it really makes it so much easier to notice how the crowd moves about and so on. The trouble is, certain people got to thinking about how best they could "play" with the recording and

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First of the videos that I took of the Hall being set up/taken down and the King dining has now been edited, you can find it over at the Gallery...just click on the thumbnail to get there: Sorry for the appalling picture quality, but it was a very gloomy day and the lighting was awful, that and the fact that I'm using a small pocket camera not a video camera all combine to give the effect of

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Just put a new album into the Gallery with some of the images that I took at Christmas....only 25 I'm afraid, most of what I shot was for internal analysis later on and not, I'm sorry to say, for public consumption....that and they're mostly blurred or out of focus due to the gloomy lighting on the day or my general ineptitude!! For images of the event I can recommend those taken and kindly

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Just a quickie as it's rather late!Was walking back to the digs through Base Court and found one of those hippy sky lantern thingies on the floor. If you use them, please think of the possibilities of where they may land, fortunately the heat source had burnt out, but what if it had landed alight on the Palace?Hippy types....thing before you light those decorative floatong lanterns....where

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Wishing you all the best for 2011.With luck in the coming year I can shift this blue funk and keep you better informed than of late .All the best and remember to drink responsibly tonight people....I may even allow myself a little drinky to celebrate the success of this event. An update will be forthcoming after the dust has settled, possibly a short one tomorrow too, but for now obscenely loud

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You'll notice a dearth of detail about the Xmas event for the moment for the simple reason, it's not sorted yet and I prefer to get it right this time before giving you the nitty gritty....silly really, but that's how it is!From our point of view in the kitchens, all is tickety boo, just the meal part to get 'right', but considering it's the first time this has been done like this for several

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Happy Christmas everyone. Fingers crossed for a successful event over the next week and an equally successful 2011. All the best. TC

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Right, that's it, I've done all I'm going to towards the Christmas event...it's now time for the holiday, short and sweet though it is....to be honest though I really can't recall Christmas' that have been longer than Christmas and Boxing Day so wouldn't know what to do if we had the time anyway.All the ingredients that needed to have arrived have arrived.....or, after a short delay this morning,

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Finally it's finger out time and the promised update on what we'll actually be cooking over the Christmas event! Now that all the plans are finally signed off and in place I have to say it's all looking rather good....I know I shouldn't count proverbial chickens and that, but the dress rehearsal for the 'upstairs' component looked really good and hopefully it'll all gel together to give a really

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Phew, another good day at the coal face, if somewhat cold...especially after the sun vanished at about 1.00 when the temperature inside dropped like a stone. Still, all warmed up now, thanks to a gift of a bottle of Woods 100 rum and a marathon Clint Eastwood DVD session....there's been a rather large function at the Palace tonight and the options were stay in all night or go out and stay out

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Spent the rest of the afternoon and early evening trying to work out what we will do over the weekend, but to be honest, until we know how many are in the kitchen and what we'll have to work with...snow may well scupper the deliveries, on the other hand it might not...there's actually little point in planning anything. I've got a few ideas of what we can do so all I can do is take the weekend one

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see what I did there?? Well the weather is taking its toll on the coming weekend already. So far three of the guys won't be making it as travel is impossible for them from where the live, could be more, but we'll have to wait and see. So far (fingers crossed) all the main roads from my direction are clear, so as long as I can get out of our road it should be fine for me....but the forecast is

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Snow, snow and more snow....there's a turn up for the books! All this white stuff that's covering the country (about a foot in the front garden) means that the meeting to sort out the niggles over the Christmas event has had to be postponed until the weather improves....which means not this week for certain. As this meeting won't be for a while, it's kind of unfair to keep the poor old kitty

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That's it, time is up, the survey has now closed! Many, many thanks to the 200 of you who responded, I truly am very grateful for you taking the time to fill in the responses and humour me with this part of the project. Now all that's left to do is to analyse the results and see what's what....obviously that will take some time and will have to wait for a little while until this weekend is out

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So, there I was all ready to spill about Christmas when a short email flops into the inbox at 6.00 p.m. which, for the moment, puts all my intentions to tell you the plans for Christmas on hold!?! It's not a massive problem or anything serious...simply that proper procedure wasn't followed during the planning process and that's put a slight hold on things whilst we sort it out. I'd hate to tell

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FYI, the forum is all back up and running...please sing out if you notice anything amiss after the software update..thanks! Meeting tomorrow about the Christmas event so hopefully some news for you all after that. TTFN

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I intend to run the update TONIGHT, 24th November after 22.00 GMT. Please check the twitter feed for updates and progress if you find the forum unavailable after this time. Thanks all. TC

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It's who you know....well so seems to be the case with Twitter, which since the little spat with @henrytudor8 (with his obsession about a 5 bird roast!!) and a follow by me of @tudortutor and @jonathonfoyle has seen my number of followers double to a modest 50 odd, most of which within a 6 hour period....ah the twists and turns of the modern social networking....don't think I'll ever "get it".

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...the 5th of November, it's the set up day for another weekend of cookery at Hampton Court Palace!As you may have seen on the forum, this event could well be subtitled "operation use up the freezer contents" as that's pretty much the order of the weekend...clearing some space up ready for the Christmas event as well as the much needed stock rotation...it could be a shock what's buried in the

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Have now added a new area to the forum that allows you to post questions, comments or queries without having to be a full signed up member.....ideal for those of you that might not want to take the plunge just yet in terms of signing up...or for people who just want to ask the one question! That area has some additional rules and notes which are specified in the sticky at the top of the board,

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Sorted! The problem with viewing videos should now be a thing of the past (although you may need to clear your browser cache to make sure) It was a 'problem' with permissions....basically unless you have signed up as a Gallery member, you didn't have permission to see the video...oops! So rather than attempt to force you all to join up, which is never going to happen, I've changed the

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Right so that plan didn't work then!Will look at why the video doesn't work and update you all as soon as I can

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Finally! I managed to process the videos from the October cookery weekend, although I'm having hassle in uploading them at the moment due to slooow Internet speeds, so I've limited it to just one for today...fingers crossed a new day will bring a calmer Internet and easier uploads. This is the first of the videos to go straight to the new video album at the Gallery, so you'll have to excuse any

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Recipe and Cooking Survey. As part of the ongoing research into the use of the Historic Kitchens at Hampton Court Palace I would like to invite you to participate in a survey that aims to find how recipes are used in modern cookery. The answers to this survey will allow us to compare modern recipe use with what is currently known about recipe usage in Henry VIII’s reign with the statistics

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after last nights post....as is always the way...I found quite a large chunk of side project#2 needing to be re written and now thanks to internet problems that's taking longer than I had hoped...the upshot being that it's not quite ready yet, so I can't update you at the moment. It's really quite frustrating, but I assure you that this has to be correct before I can release it otherwise it's a

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So the October event is virtually upon us and I'm only just getting round to updating the blog!! Why the delay....forgetting a huge pile of stuff I was supposed to sort for Carter is one reason, having to suggest plans for Christmas with only a 2 day window is another....side project #2 is the third, but more of that later (not in this post, but definitely before I leave for the Palace tomorrow)

Tudor Cookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05255518452245806185noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7585872298905423391.post-75893042883718479402010-09-13T01:45:00.000Z2010-09-13T01:45:54.273Z

A new addition to the 'empire' is now to be found at www.tudorcook.co.uk/gallery....a gallery! Most of the blurb about it is written in the members area over at the forum, but for those of you who are reluctant to join in over at the forums (19 members, 106 useful and interesting topics containing 409 scintilating posts ;o) ), I'll repeat the info' here as well..... "As part of the new hosting

Tudor Cookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05255518452245806185noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7585872298905423391.post-64798231437177298822010-09-08T13:26:00.000Z2010-09-08T13:26:34.342Z

If anyone has been trying to register for the forum, but getting an error message....page not found, or closed for maintenance, this "error" has now been fixed and registration now works correctly. Some half wit forgot to change the link on the big 'register' button in the middle of the page to point to the correct web page now that the hosting has been changed. Sorry!

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As of 03.58 GMT+1 7th Sept the forum is back online.....and yes I feel a plank! There is a post there that asks, but I'll add it here too, please let me know if you find things missing or broken...I think I've repaired my stupidity, but need you all to check for me too. For those who have yet to join, now is an excellent time to think about it...so pop over, read the welcome board information

Tudor Cookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05255518452245806185noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7585872298905423391.post-56632737039296918602010-09-07T00:20:00.004Z2010-09-07T03:23:14.269Z

well....what did I say??? New toy...new opportunities to balls things up! Working to restore what I seem to have destroyed, forum wise. Will update when I have more or indeed any news.

Tudor Cookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05255518452245806185noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7585872298905423391.post-86487920646749652022010-09-05T00:22:00.000Z2010-09-05T00:23:07.734Z

Having jigged the original plan for today around to take into account the need for light duties for 2 of us, the day went fairly well...not as productive as I'd have liked in terms of cooking, but enough to make the day pass quickly as well as the expected liberal doses of chating with some very interested parties.The big problem for this evening has been in working out tomorrows work schedule..

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as, although things could be described as slow in terms of people joining in, it is allowing members to chat amongst themselves and for information, pictures and the like of the cookery events to appear without me having to get my proverbial finger out and write something! Again I have to stress that the forum idea isn't meant to replace the blog posts, but to add to the whole shebang and

Tudor Cookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05255518452245806185noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7585872298905423391.post-9928897172099875172010-09-01T23:48:00.000Z2010-09-01T23:48:24.268Z

Right, all change time again.....I've thought long and hard and decided to stump up the moola for some paid for web space that will allow the forum a permanent home as well as some other new things I'm thinking of adding/changing in the near future. The button on the right now takes you to the new address, but for your records the forum now resides at http://www.tudorcook.co.uk/forums If you get

Tudor Cookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05255518452245806185noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7585872298905423391.post-46509599501554713192010-08-29T00:37:00.001Z2010-08-29T00:37:36.503Z

.....you've actually managed to make less that they did last time when you two weren't here!! Was the comment from Howard the fire warder around 3 this afternon. Fair enough from what I've been told about the last event it would seem that his observation was correct.....we managed to make virtually no complete dish today.....but boy did we talk!Perhaps tomorrow we might manage a little more?

Tudor Cookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05255518452245806185noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7585872298905423391.post-6291534471019619522010-08-28T07:27:00.001Z2010-08-28T07:27:40.833Z

What did I say....more F3 than F1??Looks like that decision may well come to haunt me this weekend....perhaps the search for paid web hosting will start a little sooner than ecpected?

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So there I was trying to think of what to put in a new post tonight when what should flop into the inbox from Robert, but a mammoth posting about the last weekend....so without further ado (but with a little judicious editing) I shall let Robert tell you all about it........The first August weekend, and it was barbecue time! Lucky that the weekend turned out to be barbecue weather... not so lucky

Tudor Cookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05255518452245806185noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7585872298905423391.post-22182753392903214502010-08-22T23:04:00.003Z2010-08-22T23:33:36.792Z

Have a little look to the right and you should see a button that will take you to the first of the side projects that have kept me distracted of late....a forum.Why a forum? Well simply the suggestion was to have somewhere for chat, discussion and news that wasn't reliant too much on me getting my finger out and writing a blog post! Now I realise that the blog seems to be a fairly one way affair.

Tudor Cookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05255518452245806185noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7585872298905423391.post-8574994435633141552010-08-20T23:15:00.003Z2010-08-26T23:51:00.105Z

is what I've been....recovering from the stay in hospital, which has taken longer than I thought (still not up to full strength, it's amazing how much three little holes in your abdomen can set you back!), by a couple of side projects, but mostly with work.With it being the summer holidays, people in the department are off on their jaunts which means that a lot more pre planning has to be done a

Tudor Cookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05255518452245806185noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7585872298905423391.post-23709532088239368022010-08-07T23:23:00.002Z2010-08-08T00:09:30.186Z

....so, a second hand report on the action in the kitchens today, thanks to a brief phone call from Robin earlier this evening.The plan for the weekend was to talk about cooking 'history food' at home today using a charcoal barbecue, because after all that's really what our charcoal stoves are...the idea being to give people a nudge this summer to try something that isn't just burgers, chops and

Tudor Cookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05255518452245806185noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7585872298905423391.post-56248220882124934012010-08-06T23:19:00.002Z2010-08-06T23:27:50.104Z

...well at least I can only assume that the rest of the guys are all set ready for this weekend of cookery as I'm sat here at home convalescing after the recent trip to hospital. It certainly feels more than a little odd being here knowing that I 'should' be at work, still the guys have the list of work that I had already planned and the ingredients to cook those dishes and I'm sure that they'll

Tudor Cookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05255518452245806185noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7585872298905423391.post-16683507621607633542010-07-28T21:04:00.001Z2010-07-28T21:04:28.759Z

Easy...I lost a couple of ounces (not true value) by having unxpected keyhole surgery to remove my apendix on Tuesday!!Not the update I was hoping to give you, so please be patient with me 'til I get home from hospital and get things sorted...probably after the weekend

Tudor Cookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05255518452245806185noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7585872298905423391.post-36987254554360094742010-07-24T21:40:00.001Z2010-07-24T21:40:06.756Z

No update at the moment, I seem to be sat here with a raging temperature, the room spinning and feeling like I'll be spending some time in the bathroom tonight....looks like I spent too much time making sure everyone was drinking enough stood in the sun and not enough time doing it myself...what a plonker.Will post update when room stops moving so much.....oh and by the way, it is most certainly

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Phew, what a day that was! Fingers crossed we've got it all sorted for tomorrow and anything that isn't can wait til the morning.Everyone is looking forward to a packed event tomorrow and the beauty of it is that for a rare opporunity we get to see most of it too...fighting Turks and Hungarians, a tussle with a bodyguard, the King/Queen dining, a german ambassador who is actually German...the

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Well a top day spent at the National Archives today has seen me claw a little bit of that lost research time back....woo hoo!Lots looked at, in the main to see how close a lot of the Victorian calendar versions of the documents are and to check if/what was left out....mostly not much as it happens, so I can be happy that the conclusions I'm drawing so far are based on reasonable evidence and not

Tudor Cookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05255518452245806185noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7585872298905423391.post-16357032417088513262010-07-21T23:52:00.003Z2010-07-22T00:21:06.723Z

but this is ridiculous!Lots of things on my plate keeping me busy have meant letting it slide a little here...apologies, but I'm afraid that's the way the cookie crumbled over the last few weeks.Just a quickie now to say that I am alive and there will be stuff forthcoming, especially as we're cooking this weekend and Saturday sees the flotilla event in full effect with Henry dining alfresco in

Tudor Cookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05255518452245806185noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7585872298905423391.post-23379175416587628702010-07-07T23:10:00.002Z2010-07-07T23:28:06.848Z

Unsurprisingly, things took a little longer than I'd planned this evening...a phone call to Carter tends to do that...so I've not got round to sorting out the images from the past weekend...still, will give me something to do tomorrow perhaps.I have though found a video of Dave running the mini jousting game from June, so will pop that at the bottom of the post for your viewing pleasure.I suppose

Tudor Cookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05255518452245806185noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7585872298905423391.post-60199100565778307682010-07-04T00:25:00.000Z2010-07-04T00:26:55.177Z

Robert and I will swap around tomorrow, so there will be a lot less 'tweeting' as I'll be in my Tudor clothes cooking away...or should that be sweating away?Other than that there's not much to say at the moment....the guys did all that was planned and we spoke to lots of VERY interested people. A better report will follow when I've looked at all the images and remembered what we *actually* did !!

Tudor Cookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05255518452245806185noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7585872298905423391.post-20477654025931948822010-07-03T00:32:00.000Z2010-07-03T00:33:34.676Z

Time for the quickest update before bed now that I've got a mobile signal!Had a chat with Robert and we've decided to split shift the weekend and have a day each recording and cooking, with Robert cooking tomorrow and me taking pictures and vice versa on Sunday.....what does that mean for you? Simply put...more tweets during the day tomorrow, possibly with pictures of the guys doing their thing,

Tudor Cookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05255518452245806185noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7585872298905423391.post-34689412848216349772010-07-01T21:39:00.002Z2010-07-01T22:11:58.134Z

as you may have seen on the Twitter feed, I'm fascinated by the number of people who have 'followed' then 'un-followed' a day or so later..in one case within hours! OK so it's not hundreds, but when you only have 15 followers, you notice every one come and go.Almost all of them appear from the name or bio or picture to be connected with food in some way...critic/reviewer/recipe 'creator' and

Tudor Cookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05255518452245806185noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7585872298905423391.post-27840483194578701672010-06-30T08:19:00.002Z2010-06-30T08:28:59.283Z

So sat in my hotel room here getting ready for the Langford Food Industry Conference, the subject of which is nutrition and climate change and how it effects the meat industry.As I said via twitter, I fell as if I am very much the odd man out here as all the rest of the speakers are either connected heavily to the meat trade or are scientists working in the field of nutrition....then there's me!

Tudor Cookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05255518452245806185noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7585872298905423391.post-3426532747780014382010-06-26T23:00:00.002Z2010-06-26T23:05:41.811Z

Right, time's up!That's long enough for my needs and so the poll has now been closed and removed from the earlier post.Many many thanks to those of you in the UK who took the time to help out...I've not added up the figures yet to see how many of you voted, but percentage wise 89% of you that voted don't own a copy of Mr Oliver's book.When I get the time I'll let you know what this was actually

Tudor Cookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05255518452245806185noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7585872298905423391.post-82188453073688103582010-06-26T01:59:00.002Z2010-06-26T02:18:06.370Z

To bring you more writing......doh!Not really an update, rather a quick post to say that although I'm up to my neck in writing this paper...yes, yes I know, should have done it earlier....I am still keeping an eye on things here as well....just don't expect much for the next few days and certainly nothing of any great length or significance...as for thoughts about the past weekend of cookery, at

Tudor Cookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05255518452245806185noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7585872298905423391.post-45006242959732399662010-06-22T23:48:00.005Z2010-07-16T22:37:32.412Z

I would be extremely grateful if you could help out with the paper I'm writing by answering the poll question below.Whilst I know that you are all probably happy to help, I only need UK residents to answer please. This is fairly important as the paper is about recipe use in the UK and how representative certain books are of cookery as a whole.I will leave the poll active for a couple of days then

Tudor Cookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05255518452245806185noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7585872298905423391.post-10432267125456861952010-06-18T23:24:00.002Z2010-06-19T00:00:22.775Z

As promised, just time for a brief update...got to be short as I've been burning the candle at both ends over the last week or so and it's all started to catch up with me now and joined up thinking is proving a little tricky tonight.After a fraught week of computer problems I finally managed to get it all back up and working....but then had to crack on with finishing off the chocolate talk that I

Tudor Cookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05255518452245806185noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7585872298905423391.post-57380855172077426232010-06-11T23:56:00.001Z2010-06-11T23:56:51.900Z

Over two days lost to this stupid hard disk upgrade now....arrrrrrghhhh...!*?#@! The good news is that the disks now seem to be working as they're supposed to, the computer boots up and all the programs are transferred over.The bad news is that I am now trying to get the stupid machine to re-build some of it's file structure so that all of the data....including all the pictures as well as the

Tudor Cookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05255518452245806185noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7585872298905423391.post-81278327005628758162010-06-09T23:50:00.002Z2010-06-10T00:44:00.469Z

First off, many many thanks to all of you who have taken the time to complete the little survey in the earlier post...it has proved to be most instructive, especially when combined with all the 'usual' information that I have...essentially, the bulk of respondents are new to here...so HELLO! Hopefully you'll stick around for a bit or at least pop in now and then to see how things are ticking

Tudor Cookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05255518452245806185noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7585872298905423391.post-3517898131245540432010-06-08T02:46:00.002Z2010-06-08T02:54:47.341Z

It's been quite busy here of late, the statistics for visitors are showing me that a nice number of people are popping in and (hopefully) reading the burble that you find here.As with visits to all internet sites, the statistics log all sorts of information like the countries you all live in, what times people visit, what site you came to the blog from....nothing unusual in fact and all very

Tudor Cookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05255518452245806185noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7585872298905423391.post-69468091207165606222010-06-08T01:51:00.002Z2010-06-08T02:13:40.530Z

..to let you all know that there seems to have been a little more success with the pictures from this last weekend when compared to the week before! The light levels in the kitchen mean that a lens with a suitable aperture needs to be used, which gives me a choice of 2...hooray.Unfortunately they are both manual focus lenses and it takes me a while to get in the swing of using them...though by

Tudor Cookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05255518452245806185noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7585872298905423391.post-10429446383231610852010-06-06T13:20:00.001Z2010-06-06T13:20:07.591Z

Another opportunity has presented itself for a swift cuppa and a sitdown, so a little time to update you on the work being done today by the guys in the kitchen.Robin is finishing off his mutton stew that he began yesterday....tastes very fruity, very meaty....not to my taste, but I can see why the rest of the team would be all over it!As you may have noticed from the tweets, there's tripe in

Tudor Cookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05255518452245806185noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7585872298905423391.post-15873064192151912262010-06-05T14:10:00.001Z2010-06-05T14:10:40.439Z

Would you believe it, time for a cup of tea and a little break, so an opportunity to give you a quick update about the cookery.Carter and Pick are once again showing just how easy some of the recipes really are and how simple they are to cook at home......this is at one end of the kitchen and Jorge is at the other end, chatting about meals, manners and dining.In the middle the guys are hard at it

Tudor Cookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05255518452245806185noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7585872298905423391.post-11925780062379161122010-06-05T00:46:00.000Z2010-06-05T00:45:53.334Z

3 days isn't enough time to get your head straight!I got to work to find that I'd left both my lunch and evening meal behind, so have been subsisting on Robins good will......and the hot dogs that he brought! Not only that, but it seems that I haven't got a phone charger with me either, so will have to resort to the complicated use of a laptop to charge my phone at some time tomorrow...apologies

Tudor Cookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05255518452245806185noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7585872298905423391.post-16536040191229727852010-06-03T22:26:00.002Z2010-06-03T23:07:42.953Z

Forward planning....I've not got it! I'll tell you this, three days is not enough between events...either to recover or to finish all the stuff that I had to get done!!No sympathy needed, it's all my own fault for not keeping an eye on things or the date, so as well as the cookery and planning for July, there's an adult ed' session on chocolate to sort out for a fortnights time, including a

Tudor Cookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05255518452245806185noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7585872298905423391.post-50876166962480002382010-06-01T23:51:00.003Z2010-06-02T00:34:29.865Z

Well the images are safely restored to the hard drive, but as I said earlier I'm only posting the video tonight as I need to sleep after the long weekend...It's not the physical part that exhausts, it's the mental stuff, all that talking and trying to remember facts and figures over and over an then put it into context for the person asking the question as well as packaging it in a way that suits

Tudor Cookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05255518452245806185noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7585872298905423391.post-78807318245755287482010-06-01T22:51:00.001Z2010-06-01T22:51:59.305Z

OK, so form a queue to call me stupid....and more so than usual!A lack of joined up thinking and the use of the shift key instead of the ctrl key when selecting files for making some space means that I've deleted the backup of this weekends images....doh!It's no big problem as I tend towards the 'belt and braces' type of backing up when it comes to the computer and I only deleted files that I had

Tudor Cookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05255518452245806185noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7585872298905423391.post-14283212000717396992010-05-31T21:57:00.000Z2010-05-31T21:58:24.545Z

Finally back home and totally exhausted.....and I was only taking pictures and recording the weekend...hats off to the guys for some excellent work this weekend and some cracking food, especially given the high visitor numbers. Lot's of new and interesting thoughts and ideas to feed back into the project later on throughout the year. As it turns out I didn't manage to take any more video today,

Tudor Cookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05255518452245806185noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7585872298905423391.post-10158426509596506472010-05-30T00:58:00.000Z2010-05-30T00:59:01.266Z

My word, somewhat later that I had planned to be doing this, so it'll be much shorter than expected or indeed planned as I really should be in bed by now!It's been a really odd day today and not just because I've been in 'civvies' taking pictures and the like.....the visitors have been odd too!There has been a definite sense of visitors either having come to see what we are up to and being

Tudor Cookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05255518452245806185noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7585872298905423391.post-40592420202522738602010-05-26T22:18:00.002Z2010-05-26T22:46:58.387Z

Well the next weekend of cookery looms large and I did say that I'd let you know what we were planning to be doing didn't I?Well first of all we'll have Robin back with us after his weekend off last time, so at least there will be someone in the kitchen who is competent at making pastry. Robert will be joining him and Marc H at the stoves for this event so that he can have a go at some of the

Tudor Cookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05255518452245806185noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7585872298905423391.post-27406113230772910082010-05-25T22:38:00.003Z2010-05-26T01:01:31.147Z

or Blue Peter part the second.So where were we? OK, after a quick re-read of what I wrote last time to get back up to speed it's now time to deal with what we did with the beast after it was constructed I suppose. Before we get there though we need a brief re-cap and a moment of scene setting to get us all in the mood that I was in for the next evening of filming... a lousy one!As I said in the

Tudor Cookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05255518452245806185noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7585872298905423391.post-77321317931129538532010-05-22T02:12:00.003Z2010-05-22T02:14:26.139Z

Looks like the Flikr badge in the right hand column is playing up again.....no need to comment for me though this time thanks, hopefully it'll sort itself out when I update the images for the next post.TTFN

Tudor Cookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05255518452245806185noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7585872298905423391.post-72828326158452112762010-05-22T01:05:00.004Z2010-05-22T02:11:53.816Z

Face it, you knew that title was coming, well those who are au fait with Blue peter at least! Disappointingly the phrase wasn't used as I think that they try to avoid it nowadays...still never mind at least it's all finally over with now.A bumper 76 images are now in their own set at the Flikr site that should just about cover the making of the cokentryce that we did for this programme, shame I

Tudor Cookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05255518452245806185noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7585872298905423391.post-67311274738197392742010-05-20T09:51:00.001Z2010-05-20T09:51:44.935Z

A beautiful day outside and another one stuck inside all day!What's the plan for today you ask....well lots to get sorted before the recording starts at 6 tonight...a green batter to make for the beast to be coated in, almonds to blanch for the haslet as well as all the fruit to chop up....and as it's Blue Peter there has to be the ability to have one "we made earlier" so about 2ft of fruit and

Tudor Cookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05255518452245806185noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7585872298905423391.post-76373549578795523852010-05-19T23:52:00.002Z2010-05-20T00:03:31.191Z

OK, going to keep it short and sweet because I'm exhausted and have to get some kip before another long day at the Palace....lots to prep for the filming tomorrow evening as well as a couple of meetings to squeeze in as well!Today went pretty well, even considering the reservations I had about making a cokentrice in the first place. After a bit of thought Robin and I worked out a plan of attack

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Having been berated by no.1 fan for not telling about the Blue Peter gig earlier I supppse I should let you know what it's all about shouldn't I?Seems that they are doing an entire Tudor special programme and the bulk of it is coming from good old HCP...including a stint from yours truly and Robin...is it me or does that sound a little too much like some kind of cheesy knock off superhero duo?...

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Time has defeated me in my quest to post a meaningful entry about the last weekend of cookery...I have got to get some kip now as the next couple of days will be long and tiring....both physically and mentally, looks like we'll be recording until 9.30/10.oo p.m. each day, then add the washing up time and commute!the shopping list took longer than I thought and I still have to transfer Roberts

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Finally managed to get all the unexpected work done, well at least I've got it to a stage where it can be discussed at a meeting later in the week...no details for you yet, but it will have a dramatic effect on the way that we work behind the scenes so I certainly aim to keep you all abreast of the situation when it is prudent to do so.That not withstanding, I found more work was headed my way

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OK, so nothing to do with cooking or the Tudors, but for those in the UK who are interested in social history and would like to add to the written record so that in the future we can have a better archive to help out people like us, have a look here at the Mass Observation site.Their project is large and ambitious and there are all sorts of links to follow on the page to join in with their

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Just to let you all know that due to a slight hard drive problem with his laptop, Robert wasn't able to furnish me with copies of all the pictures that he took before we parted ways on Monday evening.All this just means that we will be a small delay before we can show you what we did....until then it's just prose all the way I'm afraid....not my strong suit!!Off to think about what to say that

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While I remember I really do have to say thanks to Jorge and Marc H for all the advertising of the blog that they have done of late and especially today...cheers guys, I owe you a beer for all that 'hard sell' you have done, it's most apreciated.

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Well all those plans for this evening seem to have gone awry haven't they!?!Robert found better/more interesting things to occupy him and Marc H and I ended up in the pub with some of the warders so cooking, recipes and thoughts of planning went right out of the window!So saying though we have sorted out tomorrows plan of attack, or rather have confirmed my plans as being possible/plausible and

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Did we notice being down to an 8 man team today? Hell yes!As you'll have noticed there were no tweets or posts once the working day began, quite simply because there was never an oportunity to take 5 minutes out for a break and an update. It would be unfair to say that we've been rushed off of our feet, or super busy but what it has been is constant....lots of lovely people to talk with one after

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